LiamTheHuman t1_j6oexey wrote
Reply to comment by E_B_Jamisen in There's a perception that you can't just invent a word, and yet hundreds of thousands of them have been invented by pufballcat
what I don't get is that the way 'literal' gives emphasis was through hyperbole. Changing the definition has actually destroyed that use of the word. So people use it that way and I am literally stuck in an endless loop of logic.
E_B_Jamisen t1_j6ogfxx wrote
I dont think its changed definitions to mean figuratively. I think it still is used as hyperbole.
apparently the first use of literally as figurative was in 1769
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